The document summarizes Brazil's "One Computer per Student Project" (UCA Project). It discusses that the project aims to provide all public school students with a low-cost laptop and internet access by 2010. It describes the project's development from 2005-2008, including initial concept development, research partnerships formed in 2006, and two trial phases in 2007-2008 before a larger pilot program. The summary highlights that the pilot will provide 150,000 laptops across 500 schools in 27 Brazilian states to test impacts on teaching and learning.

1. One Laptop Per Child Meeting – OLPC
MIT Media Laboratory
Cambridge, Massachusetts
May 20-23, 2008
Brazil
Projeto Um Computador por Aluno – UCA
One Computer per Student Project - UCA

2. Brazil
Society. Basic Education
• Brazil. Organization political-
administrative:
– Union
– 27 States
– 5.564 Municipalities
– Population: 187 millions
• Teaching systems: public and
particular
• 55,9 millions of the students in
the basic education
• 44,8% of the students enrolled
in municipal schools
• 41,7% enrolled in the state
networks
• Total of 203.9 thousand
schools in the country
• 82,6% are public schools

3. Brazil
UCA Project
• Coordinated by Office Staff the Presidency of the
Republic operationalized by the Ministry of Education
• UCA Project fits into the Development Plan for Education
and incorporates the National Program for Educational
Technology
• ProInfo is a project(10 years) that instals computers labs
in schools, promote teachers managers, technicians and
monitors students trainning, that will providing universal
access for all public schools by 2010
• The initiative of the government to provide educational
laptop and Internet access integrated with other projects,
that use technology in public schools

5. Brazil
UCA Project : Development
• 2005
– Assimilation of the concept in Brazil:
• Concept 1:1, low-cost connected laptop, tools for learning
– Task forces (various ministries)
• Analysis of alternatives.
• Resolutions technical and political
• Digital Inclusion. Quality in education
• Policy guided by enduring values of society
– Educational requirements and functional
• Academic and scientific community subsidies

6. Brazil
UCA Project : Development
• 2006
– Own solutions - recruitment of research centers :
• Fundação Centro de Referência em Tecnologias Inovadoras –
CERTI (Foundation Center for Innovative Technology in Reference)
– Chain production, management and innovation (R & D) and software
• Laboratório de Sistemas Integráveis Tecnológicos – LSI / USP
(Integrable Systems Technology Laboratory - LSI / University of Sao
Paulo – USP
– Integrated circuits, hardware, wireless technology, software
• Centro de Pesquisa Renato Archer – CenPRA (Research Center
Renato Archer)
– Display, hardware, ergonomic
• Rede Nacional de Pesquisas – RNP (National Network of Research)
– Evaluation of the concept mesh network and existing resources for the
formation of networks from the school

7. Brazil
UCA Project : Development
• 2007
– Phase I – experiments with laptops: donated
by manufacturers
• Five schools in the cities of UCA: Sao Paulo, Porto Alegre,
Palmas, Piraí-RJ and Brasilia
• GT-UCA (Educational Working Group of UCA):
– Preferential monthly meetings in the five schools with experiments
– The main documents: "Project Basis"; " UCA Pedagogicals
Principles “; "Formation Brazil: Pilot“
– Phase II - Pilot
• Mobilization and adhesion of public systems of education
• Selection from 300 public schools and 5 municipalities total
UCA

8. UCA Project – Phase I - Experiments CLASSMATE, INTEL
• Palmas-TO
Colégio Estadual Dom Alano Marie Du Noday
Equip.: ClassMate/PC Intel
Quantitaty: 400
Feature: share in shift different of laptops
• Piraí-RJ
CIEP n°477 Profª Rosa Conceição Guedes
Equip.: ClassMate/PC Intel
Quantitaty: 400
Feature: concept 1:1
MOBILIS, ENCORE
Brasília-DF
Centro de Ensino Fundamental n° 1 do Planalto
Equip.: Mobilis, Encore
Quantitaty: 40
Feature: share in 3 differents shifts
XO, OLPC
São Paulo
Escola Municipal Ens. Fund. Ernani Silva Bruno
Equip.: XO, OLPC
Quantitaty: 300 B1-B2 65 B4
Feature: share in 3 differents shifts
Porto Alegre
Escola Estadual Luciana de Abreu
Equip.: XO, OLPC
Quantitaty: 330 B1-B2 65 B4
Feature: concept 1:1

9. UCA Project: phase I - Experiments
CLASSMATE INTEL
• Palmas-TO
Colégio Estadual Dom Alano Marie Du Noday
• Piraí-RJ
CIEP n°477 Profª Rosa Conceição Guedes
MOBILIS, ENCORE
Brasília-DF
Centro de Ensino Fundamental n° 1 do Planalto
XO, OLPC
São Paulo
Escola Municipal Ens. Fund. Ernani Silva Bruno
:
Porto Alegre
Escola Estadual Luciana de Abreu

10. UCA Project – Phase II - Pilot
General information on the Pilot
• 27States – 10 schools per State:
• 5 State schools
• 5 Municipals schools
• urbans and rural
• 5 Total UCA municipals
• Laptops 150.000
• 500 by school – for all teachers and
students
• 1 Mbps broadband (at least)
•2 servers
• Federal Government equipment, internet
access, training and assessment
•Governments state and municipality
Partnerships, the school infrastructure
(electrical and logic) - educational project
for use in school

11. Brazil
UCA Project : Development
• 2008
– Documentation of the experiments (financing Inter-
American Development Bank - BID)
– Team dedicated to Project UCA in MEC
• Coordinate, supervise, develop, monitor and support the
deployment and implementation of the Pilot
– GT-UCA: advice on scientific UCA
• Advice pedagogical, collaboration in the definition of
guidelines and support the deployment, implementation,
monitoring and accessment of the Project

12. Brazil
UCA Project : Development
• 2008
– Structuring of actions:
• Infrastructure: physics, logic and communication
• Training teachers
– Training of the entire educational network involved with the UCA: .
researchers from universities; teachers and administrators of schools;
students who act as monitors; technical staff
• Evaluation of the Pilot
– Assessment of schools of UCA Pilot on the use of educational laptops -
impacts, innovative situations and the results they generate
• Research
– Identification and analysis of innovative teaching practices with the
educational laptop connected
– Construction of reference of the curriculum change required to
education
– Edict of purchase of laptops (new – Bid/Tender law in Brazil)

13. Brazil
UCA Project
Thank you
. José Luiz Maio de Aquino
- Special Advisory Board to President of Republic
jl.aquino@planalto.gov.br
. Pedro Ferreira de Andrade - Ministry of Education
pedroandrade@mec.gov.br